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Ruchit Jain, Technical Analyst at Angel Broking, takes viewers through all the market action today.

HCL Technologies (1.68%), Infosys (1.38%) and NTPC (1.29%) were the top Sensex gainers.

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal: Fiscal deficit has come down to 3.4 per cent in revised estimate of 2018-19; current account deficit expected to be 2.5 per cent this year.

At 11:32 hours, the BSE Sensex was trading at 36,017.93, up by 426.68 points or by 1.2 per cent, amid optimism about upcoming Union Budget and dovish comments by the US Federal Reserve after it kept interest rate unchanged.

HCL Technologies posted a 19% increase in consolidated net profit to Rs 2,611 crore for the quarter ended December 31

In the last few years, the Bengaluru-headquartered IT firm had slowed down hiring from college campuses due to a lacklustre business growth along with automation which has affected fresh hiring across software services projects at IT companies.

While the Sensex rose 117 points to 35630, Nifty gained 50 points to 10,721. Of 30 Sensex stocks, 27 were trading in the green

In line with benchmark indices the broader markets also settled in red, with mid cap and small cap indices falling as much as 1.03 per cent and 0.58 per cent, respectively.

This move comes as IT service rivals Infosys, Cognizant, HCL Technologies and Wipro lose employees to each other.